How to format your references using the International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Dyson G. Turing centenary: The dawn of computing. Nature. 2012;482:459–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yamazaki T, Oda H. Orbital influence on Earth’s magnetic field: 100,000-year periodicity in inclination. Science. 2002;295:2435–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Exadaktylos F, Espín AM, Brañas-Garza P. Experimental subjects are not different. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1213.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jiao Y, Wickett NJ, Ayyampalayam S, Chanderbali AS, Landherr L, Ralph PE, et al. Ancestral polyploidy in seed plants and angiosperms. Nature. 2011;473:97–100.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Scot L. The Simplified Guide to Not-for-Profit Accounting, Formation, and Reporting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Bærentzen JA. Guide to Computational Geometry Processing: Foundations, Algorithms, and Methods. Gravesen J, Anton F, Aanæs H, editors. London: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Li W, Meng W, Kwok L-F. Design of Intrusion Sensitivity-Based Trust Management Model for Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. In: Zhou J, Gal-Oz N, Zhang J, Gudes E, editors. Trust Management VIII: 8th IFIP WG 1111 International Conference, IFIPTM 2014, Singapore, July 7-10, 2014 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 61–76.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Check Out These Amazing Waterspouts Spotted In China. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Survey of the Harrison County Head Start Program, Gulfport, Mississippi. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Mar. Report No.: HRD-78-82.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Himschoot AR. Student perception of relevance of biology content to everyday life: A study in higher education biology courses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Billard M. Eight Arms To Embrace Your Pair. New York Times. 2010 Jun 24;E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
Abbreviation	Int. J. Diabetes Dev. Ctries
ISSN (print)	0973-3930
ISSN (online)	1998-3832
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine